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2013年2月18日星期一

A bad relationship can make you ill by damaging your immune system

Doctors often tell us to keep good mood.
But sometimes it is rather hard to follow the doctor's advice for some people some
thing. Especially be anxious about close relationships, this is a common thing,
and almost inevitable.Recently, dailymail health channel has reported that Feeling anxious about close relationships could make you fall
ill - by damaging your immune system.

Not only does anxiety appear to raise
levels of stress hormones in the body, it also makes it less effective at
fighting off illness.

Researchers at Ohio Sate University tested
the health effects of 'attachment anxiety' on 85 couples who had been married
for an average of more than 12 years.

People with attachment anxiety are defined
as being excessively concerned about rejection.

They also have a tendency to constantly
seek reassurance that they are loved, and are more likely to interpret
ambiguous events in a relationship as negative, the researchers said.

Couples completes questionnaires about
their relationships and had samples of blood and saliva taken.

This was so levels of a key stress-related
hormone and numbers of certain immune cells could be tested.

The participants also reported general
anxiety symptoms and their sleep quality.

Of particular interest were people
considered to be at the high end of the attachment anxiety spectrum.

The researchers found that people with high
attachment anxiety produced, on average, 11 per cent more cortisol - a hormone associated with stress - than those who weren't so anxious.

They also found that the more anxious
people were also less able to fight off infection, as they had up to 22 per
cent T- cells than less anxiously attached partners.

Incidentally, while more women in the study
suffered from higher levels of attachment anxiety, the researchers saw the same
elevated levels of cortisol and lower T-cells in the men who were anxious.

Stress is already known to negatively
affect health, but this study aimed to look specifically at relationship
anxiety.

And while more women in the study suffered
from higher levels of attachment anxiety, the researchers saw the same elevated
levels of cortisol and lower T-cells in the men who were anxious.

Lead study author Lisa Jaremka said:
'Everyone has these types of concerns now and again in their relationships, but
a high level of attachment anxiety refers to people who have these worries
fairly constantly in most of their relationships.'

Though some scientists believe that
attachment anxiety can be traced back to childhood, Dr Jaremka noted that
people who feel anxious can change, over time.

'It's not necessarily a permanent state of
existence,' she said in the study published in the journal Psychological
Science.

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